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HEATING APPARATUS POR GARS.

No. 281,801. Patented July 24, 1883.

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IsInon sIIInrSER, on SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, ASsIGNon To PAUL STECK, on SAME PLACE.

HEATING APPARATUS FOR CARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 281,801, dated July 24, 1883.

Application filed March 13, 19.83. (No model.)

To all whom, t may con/cern,.-

Be it known that I, IsInoR SHIRPsEn, of the city and county of San Francisco, State of California, have invented an Improved Heating Apparatus for Cars; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to a new and useful apparatus specially adapted for heating railwaycars; and it consists in the construction of devices and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

The object of my invention is to heat a train of cars by the introduction, through suitable registers in each, of air heated at and delivered from a single place in the train by simple and efficient means, whereby the danger Referring to the accompanying drawing, the figure is a longitudinal section of a portion of a train and of my device as applied thereto.

A is the baggage-car, in one end of which I propose to wall in Iny heating device.

B is the heater. It consists of a cylinder constructed of boileriron and lined with iirebriek. It may be made in several parts and suitably bolted together. It extends horizontally on the floor of the car, and then vertically to the top, where it is inclosed. Vithin this Cylinder are a number of iiues, C, made of iireclay. rIhey are spaced and held in position by the partitions D. These are also made of fire-clay or similar substance, and are so arranged with relation to each other that every alternate one shall extend from the bottom or from one side and stop short of the top or of the other side, and the others shall extend oppositely or in a reverse manner, whereby a of the cylinder, in order to deilect the air in its passage and cause it to permeate the entire space between the iiues G. The flues C, at their entrance, are provided with funnelshaped mouths c, which occupy the entire in ducts of combustion or gases Inay be directed wholly into the iiucs, and not within the intermediate spaces, which are reserved for the air. These iiues communicate with a vent or escape, b, extending through the roof of the car.

E is a pipe opening out of the cylinder near the entrance of the ilues and communicating with the air-spaces within. This pipe extends under the baggage-car, and is coupled by any suitable device (indicated by F) with a pipe, E', extending under the ear G following, and of which but a portion is here represented.

A register, I-I, admits air from pipe E' into the car. Pipes may be continued with suitable couplings under all the cars, and may have as many communicating registers as de sirable.

Within the inclosure in the end of the baggage-ear is a blower or fan, I, receiving power through a belt, z', from the wheel J. From this blower a pipe, K, extends up to the top of and enters the heating-cylinder communieating with the the spaces therein. The revolution of, the blower forces cold air up through pipe K into the cylinder. It flows around the lues C therein, following the sinuous passage made by the partitions D, Vand down through the pipes E E into the car G. The means I adopt for heating this air are as follows:

L is any suitable well-known form of liquidhydrocarbon burner. It extends into the entrance of the cylinder, and its flame is directed into the open mouths of the fines C, whereby they are heated, and the temperature of the air surrounding them is raised to the required degree. The burner is supplied with oil from a tank, M, preferably located on the tender, and connected with the burner by a pipe, m. It is supplied with air or steam from the loeomotive through a pipe, m. By these means the air is heated and forced through the pipes into the cars. It is pure, as al1 gases pass out through the iiues, and do not mingle with the air.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In an apparatus for heating cars, and in combination with the cylinder B, having spaced lues C within it communicating with the outside, a means for heating said ilues and a means for forcing air into the cylinder around the ilues7 the partitions D within the cylinder B, pipes E E, connecting the entrance of said supporting the ilues C, and so arranged by adcylinder With the cars7 and the liquid-hydrojacent extensions from opposite sides to forni carbon burner L, directed Within the entrance 15 asinuous or tortuous passage around said iiues, of th'e ilues C, and means for supplying said 5 substantially as herein described. burner with fuel, all arranged and operating 2. In an apparatus for heating cars, the cylsubstantially as and for the purpose herein deinder B, lined with iire-brick7 the spaced iire scribed.

clay i'lues C, Opening through the car7 and par- In Witness whereof I hereunto set iny hand. 2o titions D, of fire-clay, supporting` said iiues7 in ISIDOR SHIRPSER.

io combination with a fairblower7 I7 and means Vitnesses:

for driving it, the pipe K, connecting said S. H. NoURsE,

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